07 May 2009

Tales From the SOUTH Side...
Yes, friends...time for another installment of the reason why living down on my side of Fort Wayne is PREFERRED by those who are avoiding the law, committing welfare fraud, have a criminal past, or otherwise are people whose abhorrence knows NO boundaries.
But before we jump into that, I have to ask a question, and it's a pretty EASY one to answer:
WHAT FOG?
Apparently ALL the city schools have a 2 hour delay for FOG, but I personally believe that someone (from down here, no doubt) has STOLEN IT, because I'm just not seeing ANYTHING resembling FOG.
Nothing even close to a John Carpenter movie out there at all!
It IS a little HAZY, like someone tossed some gauze over the neighborhood (and not to stem the bleeding of taxpayers' money), but it's a far cry from what I've come to know as...FOG.
Visibility around here is normal (unfortunately...then I have to see the "neighbors"). I would probably bet that in the outlying areas AROUND Fort Wayne, it probably IS FOGGY.
Coming from Philly, I KNOW what FOG is. Jersey is the FOG capital of the USA, with the mountains of Western Pennsy running a close SECOND. Perhaps our Midwest "shipment" of FOG hasn't arrived yet?
I'm not holding MY breath on this one.
Meanwhile, back on the SOUTH side...
Yes, Virginia, we STILL have those nasty boomcars, or thumpers, or whatever the hell you want to call them.
And we've got those speeding "cafe bikes", or as we used to call them back in Philly: "crotch rockets".
Nice to hear some jerkoff unwind one of those past the house after 11PM, probably reaching speeds in EXCESS of 60 MPH, before he has to slow down for the next intersection (many do not).
And the police would be hard pressed to be able to nail these perps, unless he dumped the bike somehow.
With all the vacancies and condemned properties, replete with overgrown foliage along the alleys, there is no limit to the number of places these people can "run 'n hide".
Sure they might eventually get caught (as they all do), but it would sure be nice to get them when they're fresh out of the gate, as it were.
And what springtime morning would be complete WITHOUT the dulcet tones of some asshole's POS Chevy pickup using the device quaintly known as THE GHETTO DOORBELL (the horn) to get someone out of their rental crib at 0620 hours, hmm?
(I didn't know ANY of them woke up THAT early)
If there is one all-encompassing aspect to human behavior in abundance down here, it's BLATANT DISRESPECT FOR OTHERS.
Granted, most everyone else does NOT hold down a job, but for those decent FEW that still do, it's annoying as hell to hear a blaring horn instead of the beeping alarm rousing one from sleep.
Luckily, the horn was honking close to "get-up" time, and not as is quite typical at 3-FREAKING-AM!
An adjunct to that is the way many animals...I mean PEOPLE down here play music in their houses SO LOUD, you can hear it across the street...or down the street. This is a totally separate issue from the boomcar "phenomenon", and makes sitting outside (TRYING to enjoy your garden & the songbirds - before even they leave the area) problematic at best.
Now I don't NEED to know the latest lyrics from L'il Dipshit, or Putz Daddy, nor do I even care to hear them.
And I certainly would not want to have any child listening to the *F* word or *N* word every few seconds, but I guess THESE "people" think it's perfectly OK to bring THEIR kids up in such a "rich and socially substantial" environment...yeah, right.
Today is our RECYCLING day, and as always, we do "our" share. I separate the glass and plastic from the metal and stack that and the paper in the bins provided from the city (that we pay for anyway), as per city guidelines.
We are about the ONLY ONES that do this for several blocks in any direction!
What happened to ALL those brown and yellow bins? Probably being used for "auxiliary seating" when "de boyzcumbyfodecookout, nowhuahmsayin?" (sic). Must be nice to have all day, every day "available" for such social gatherings, hmm?
And how EXACTLY do you get the MONEY for the gas to drive there? Or the gold chains around your tattooed neck (when you should have iron ones on your legs, digging some ditches)? Or the money for the FOOD and BOOZE (gots ta have my "taste", yo), and those BLUNTS you be smokin' outside, that the PO-lease don' see?
Where indeed does that money come from (aside from the dwindling number of taxpayers here)?
Well, you get the idea, people...
This is the kind of "copy" you will NEVER see in ANY paper, or hear on ANY news show, because it is the TRUTH.
It's just as truthful as the perp that busted into a SE side house at 3:30-FREAKING-AM (at least he wasn't ringing that damn GHETTO DOORBELL) on the 3500 block of Robinwood Drive , near Rudisill Ave.
Yeah, we have those "home invasions" down here...all too often, and at all hours.
For you see, these thugs have all day, every day to SCOPE YOU OUT. They watch your house. They might be stopping by some OTHER house down the block or across the street, but THEY are watching YOUR comings and goings, in the hope that YOU will give them what they need to know, so they can break into your house, and avail themselves of YOUR stuff. Simple as that.
Best advice I could give to ANYONE down here (that is not a thug, and has to remain here, unless they want to go deep into hock to move again...like us) is to change things up from time to time. Make it difficult for THEM to rob YOU.
Human nature...you got to love it, right?
I call it survival...of the SMARTEST.
Funny how that works...life is supposed to be about...well, LIVING, and here many of us are...merely SURVIVING.
Living entails a certain amount of enjoyment, contentment and serenity, whereas survival is instinctual, and serves only one purpose; to continue by any means possible.
Perhaps some day soon, we can forget about all the crap politics, the criminals, the hands in our pockets for our money, the high prices, the low morale, the shouting, screaming, and honking, and take some time to do what we do BEST...
Namely...LIVING.
Be nice to get back to that...
So, as you search for that elusive fog today,
Stay safe out there, America.

06 May 2009

Humpday Happenings...
If you're like MOST normal people in Fort Wayne, you awoke this morning, turned on the local news or grabbed the paper and immediately began to seethe, when you read about ALL these looming TAX HIKES in our fair city.
Well, you're NOT alone.
Seems the city needs a FEDERALLY-MANDATED sewer fix up, and that's gonna COST us taxpayers...almost DOUBLE a month what you're already paying on your utility bill. It's an 86% HIKE.
WTG, King Henry!
And remember...it's GOOD to be KING.
Maybe it's time for the city to hold out it's hand to the ALMIGHTY out in Washington, and ask more MORE MONEY...
Hell, everyone ELSE is doing it, right?
Get the FEDS to pay for THEIR mandate...how simple is that?
And maybe the city can ask for some FEDERAL money for all this local BRIDGE REPAIR the county has dissed us on.
Used to be a time when the RESPONSIBILITY of maintaining bridges in OUR COUNTY resided solely with the COUNTY Commission.
Hey people...take a damn frigging PAY CUT for once in your lives.
We, the taxpayers have to do "more with less"...how's about you taking a page from OUR book for a change, instead of running this city and county "on the fly", as it were?
It's small wonder cities do things to THEMSELVES, and then sit back and wonder:
Where did all the magic go?
Where are the people?
The jobs?
The TAX MONEY we (governments) depend on so damn much to allow the lazy to get all the things to sustain life that others have to WORK and SAVE for? What happened to all that?
Oh boo-frigging-hoo...cry me a freaking RIVER, won'cha?
You bastards chased it ALL away. People get fed up with all of this crap, and those that CAN move...WILL, and far enough away from your "all-reaching" grasps into their pockets, 'cause their MONEY goes with them
Those of us that can't, have to shoulder MORE of this burden.
You want the bridges fixed?
Fine, HERE is how you (the city and county) do it:
GET ALL THOSE DAMN PRISONERS OUT OF THEIR JAIL CELLS, OUT INTO THAT FRESH AIR AND GET THEM TO FIX AND MAINTAIN THESE BRIDGES!
Hell, it's not like we DON'T have enough "idle hands" incarcerated THESE days, is it?
Reinstitute CHAIN GANGS...
That might be an incentive to NOT commit crime when they are released, don'cha think?
Man, if there is ONE THING I have noticed in my nearly TWELVE (long) years living in THIS city, it's that the powers that be want SO damn hard to turn it into a MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREA.
All well and good, BUT...you have to also be ready for ALL the problems that entails as well.
So far, this city hasn't been paying too much attention to that.
That's why you have the level of crime you do.
That's why rentals abound and neighborhoods turn into urban cesspools full of human flotsam. rising like a tide to envelope more neighborhoods yearly..
That's why people from OTHER cities come here...for the "free money" (via the welfare system). It would behoove this city to start taking a look around at ALL the "free labor" you have available, and that must include ALL these young bucks on the SOUTH side of town, that have nothing to do ALL damn day (every day) but nothing at all. Now I know the NAACP and the ACLU would be all over (tell 'em to pound sand) this like white on rice, but facts are facts.
You find a way to get these men OF the streets, and into gainful employment, and that WILL make a difference. You TEACH them, SHOW them how to make an HONEST living, and become contributing members of this city's populace, and you WILL effect change.
But as long as this city, county, state and federal government sit back and keep handing out money that is worth less this week than the last, there will be NO incentive to better ANY community.
The hard-working, tax-paying people can only do SO much, before you not only exhaust their ability to dump their money into some governmental black hole, but actually dissuade them from remaining IN your city, county, or state. Time to make EVERYONE that is capable of pulling their OWN weight...do so.
You cannot field an army with only a platoon,of warriors carrying rifles and attacking vastly superior forces.
Neither can you create a police force to protect hundreds of thousands with a mere handful of people in a few patrol vehicles.
You draw from ALL the community.
Everyone pitches in, or no one will be left TO pitch in.
Reminds me of the old saying:
"Security must be fore everyone, or no one is secure."
Same goes for footing the bill.,
It's time to stop going to the same "well" when it comes to who pays for what.
Sooner or later...that well WILL dry up, whether by attrition through old age, moving away, crime, or whatever reason you can imagine.
A city should be run as a business, which makes all of us the "employees", and the LAST thing a business should do, in order to remain viable and competitive, is to PISS OFF it's employees.
That's a sure way to see any company fold.
Take a look at DETROIT, and tell that this is NOT exactly what has happened there. That could well be OUR future here.
We are in this mess together, and it's together than we can oft times accomplish what would have seemed impossible before.
We can make OUR voices heard, hold the governments accountable to US, and even vote all of them the hell OUT of the offices they hold.
Or...we can do nothing but shake our heads,, and turn that page, or change that channel.
There are better ways to manage than by busting the humps of the people that make up a city.
They (we) have enough on THEIR Plates as it is.
And to think, we're halfway to the weekend.
Will we survive until Friday?
We can but hope, my friends.
Stay safe out there, America.

05 May 2009

Cinc, Cinc, Cinco De Mayo...
Hola, people and welcome to that wonderful day in which Mexico celebrates the defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla.
See? And you thought it had something to do with Mexico's Independence Day...
Not really.
That is reserved for 16 September (their 4th of July).
But in America, it's just another day to find reason to toss a party for the uninitiated.
(shame on them)
For the skinny on all of this, here's the WIKI link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

Now far be for me to randomly throw a party, but my very dear friend of mine from my high school days shot me a newsletter from the alumni association, and it stated that MY high school was being torn down to build a NEW one...! Certainly NOT a reason to have a party.
I have plenty of good memories there.
Perhaps, maybe a bad one or two, but overall, a nice time and a good education was to be had there.
If anything, I might consider a funeral.
The school opened in the post WW2 era, and has served the educational aspect of Northeast Philly for lo, these many decades.
But like ALL GOOD THINGS...time to push it aside for something NEWER...SHINIER...and (supposedly) BETTER.
We'll have to see on that LAST one.
Aside from George Washington High School, Lincoln was the NEWEST school in the district.
And it was my honor to attend there, taking the good along with the bad. yes, high school IS an eye-opening experience, especially when you've gotten quite comfortable in the elementary venues.
Now, I've never been one for these "middle" schools, but I suppose they MUST serve some kind of purpose (other than to empty our pockets).
I look at middle school for the breeding ground of crime and failure. It seems to give kids the chance to "hone their skills" BEFORE they hit junior high. At least it would appear that is the case.
Then again, you have to remember that back in 1965, it was a much different time.
We only had to worry about being NUKED by those nasty commies every day.
We had bread that cost 27 cents a loaf...soda that was a DIME a bottle, one nickel could still get you a mitt full of candy, burgers that cost THIRTY cents, and gas was STILL way under a buck a gallon (and that was at FULL-SERVICE stations...that had FREE MAPS and cleaned your windshield and checked fluid levels and the air in your tires).
You have to love that sh*t.
It was better then, even IF the Vietnam War was gathering momentum, and President Lyndon Johnson was flubbing his way through it.
Kids got colds, then got over them.
People, by and large, got along with one another a HELLUVA lot better than we see today.
Police actually could do PROACTIVE policing.
Just ten years before, they were STILL walking beats, checking in with those call boxes on utility poles. They knew everyone in their patrol area, and would talk to the kids all the time.There was NEVER any fear from those big guys on blue. They were there to PROTECT us all.
Seems with LESS technology, we got more done...at least we could count the number of times the police were busting someone in OUR neighborhood on ONE HAND (with several fingers missing).
Man, how those times have changed.
Now, the police appear to go from call to call to call...it's more like a complaint-driven system.
But that was all back then...and this is NOW.
Somehow, "NOW" doesn't look to be all that "enchanting" (to borrow a word from a press conference last week).
Sure, we've got a LOT more "stuff" to ease us through our lives, but there was something about simple things like WRITING A LETTER to someone, instead of "texting" them. It was nicer to talk to someone FACE TO FACE, instead of calling them (in the middle of something) on their cellphone.
You do have to remember that, with the advent of shipping a LOT of jobs elsewhere, people were forced to relocate to remain employed, and that
in and of itself was a large part of our "great divide"...people having much greater distances between one another. So the "face to face" aspect was gone for good, unless you had all that disposable income to blow on FLYING.
But, it IS Cinco De Mayo.
Time to party, right?
Forget your troubles, instead of facing them and doing something about them.
Sorry, but I'm not really buying into that just yet.
I like to spend a portion of every day seeking answers, pursuing knowledge, and, hopefully, gleaning a smattering of wisdom along the way.
The Mexicans celebrate an unexpected VICTORY (back in 1862) today.
Can we claim a victory today for ourselves?
If you look hard enough, you might surprise yourself and find a "victory".
It may not be THE victory, but it could be A victory.
No matter how small it might seem to others is not the issue.
What is important, is how it matters to YOU.
After all, YOU spend more time with YOU than anyone else, right?
And on that note...
Stay safe out there, America.

04 May 2009

Monday Musings...
When it comes to living on the SOUTH side of Fort Wayne, one must always take into consideration that a vast majority of those around you will probably NOT be of the same mindset when it comes to simple things like POLITENESS, CIVILITY, RESPECT, MORALITY, ETHICS, and INTEGRITY. In other words, it's almost like living in WASHINGTON, D.C.
And I mean that in the MOST political manner possible.
Calling things a "struggle" down here is being nice about it.
And if it is ONE thing above all else, it IS a CHALLENGE.
It's a challenge to one's ability to ignore most of what happens.
It's a challenge to one's sanity on a daily basis.
It's a challenge regarding SELF-RESTRAINT.
It's a challenge to REMAIN civilized, when others about you act like animals. For it's been said it's MUCH easier for a civilized person to devolve into an animal, than for an animal to evolve into a civilized man...given the confines of a brief time, such as a year, or even a decade.
And if there is one thing that defines our civility, placing us ABOVE the "lower life forms", it's the fact that we CHOOSE to not act the animal...not today, or perhaps not even tomorrow.
We may so want to go out and just rid the earth of the local scum...but we choose to NOT feed the (often) insatiable appetite of our "mindless primitive" (the ID) which resides in every one of us. Others seem to have problems wrapping their primate brains around such concepts.
That would be a LOT of the people that, for lack of a more descriptive term, we'll call "my neighbors".
I mentioned a LONG time ago, that we used to live at Willow Creek Crossing (for about a year). Now I quaintly call the place Willow CRACK Crossing, because of some of the sh*t I saw go one there...AND the fact that we were burglarized one fine day in June (same week my Mother passed away...talk about a fun-filled 168 hours).
When we lived there back in 1997, I thought it was barely passable as a "nice" place. Sure, it LOOKED fine enough, but, as we ALL know...looks CAN be deceiving. And they most certainly were.
Along with our break-in (complete with feces-smeared carpets), which over $500 of things were "removed" involuntarily by the thieves, we also saw girls urinating between our parked cars, pot being smoked openly at the POOL, assorted loud music and people, and even a wheelchair being pushed into the pool with people "riding" on it, like it was a water park attraction.
Add to that the place has STEEL doors (good for security) on WOODEN jambs/frames (bad for security).
I've been watching the reports for this place since we left, and apparently, not much has been done to make residents SAFER.
Their "security" consisted (back then) of an overweight guy with a radio, driving a CHEVETTE.
(yeah, I thought the same thing, too)
I DO know the FWPD patrols the place regularly, when they're NOT being called there (frequently).
This past Sunday, a 17 year old was shot in a car in the 7300 block of Mill Run Drive (the same block WE used to live on). This occurred at 0300 hours Sunday morning, but it shows how much "better" the place has become.
Kind of makes that commercial they air seem ALL the more "inviting"...doesn't it?
I STILL maintain that inadequate background checks are being performed with regularity, otherwise the incidents that happen there would be a lot less frequent. But hey, it's not MY job to manage the place...(lucky for THEM).
You can plainly see the type of behavior that's allowed, or tolerated...and I consider WCC better (but not by much) than MY neighborhood, so you get an idea what we're up against NOW.
Yesterday, we had THIRTY ONE boomcars (loud enough to shake the windows) drive past the house....that's more than ONE AN HOUR, but this occurred ONLY between 1100 hours and 2300 hours, so it's NOT EVEN a 24 hour span.
That is simply WAY TOO MANY LOUDASSES driving around to suit me (and the dead, who keep calling me. asking why they keep getting awakened by the noise).
I have proposed a "plan" that I believe will get rid of a lot of these acoustically-fueled idiots, and I sent it along to the FWPD quadrant captain, in the hope that it will be able to be implemented. I know it has worked in other cities, and should work HERE, as well. The cost is right in line with any city budget (truly minimal), and would do well to relieve some of the din we have to endure.
Now, you have to realize that this refers ONLY to loud MUSIC (if you can call this crap that). We also have those with MUFFLER issues. Some have these "performance" mufflers (on a POS Honda painted several colors of primer), that sound like a nest of hornets in heat, or the idiots that drive with a damaged muffler (the "motorboat boyz", as I call 'em), and we also have the occasional "WASHING-MACHINE CHARLIE".
Anyone that recalls military jargon know what that is.
It's a vehicle or aircraft with an annoying habit of backfiring, or otherwise making enough noise so as to disrupt normal activity at an outpost or base...(like SLEEPING). And they always used to be the target of small arms fire.
We have such vehicles around my neighborhood...
One guy drives (barely) a pre 2000 model dark green Concorde that sounds like 3 cylinders are MIA, the other 3 are mis-timed, and the baffles in the muffler have collapsed, producing gunshot-like backfires from the exhaust every few meters.
You can make a car do this easily enough, but this is a case of NEGLECT.
Kind of sounds like the way these people manage their LIVES and CHILDREN...with NEGLECT.
And to think that these problems are only the tip of a much larger "iceberg".
Just my luck to book passage on this Midwest Titanic called Fort Wayne, hmm?
Well, it doesn't HAVE to be this way. People have to be SHOWN, in no certain terms, WHY what they do is wrong.
A GOOD neighborhood helps EVERYONE.
Conversely, a BAD neighborhood helps a very few, as crime will no doubt show.
A GOOD neighborhood can often become a SHOWCASE...a jewel in any city's crown.
A BAD neighborhood becomes a PARIAH...a BANE on any city, relegated to the news at 6 & 11.
Thing is...I like the GOOD neighborhood gig a LOT more than the alternative.
Most everyone else around here? Not so much.
Therein lies the REAL problem.
Address THAT, and you CAN effect major change.
Anything less, and you do little if nothing to better the state of affairs.
And to think...it's ONLY Monday.
So much that can be done, and so little time with too few allies.
Still, it IS an ongoing challenge...AND an ongoing "adventure".
Now I sound like Remo Williams...or some military recruiting commercial...LOL!
Stay safe out there, America.

01 May 2009

Friday Follies...
Here we are at the end of the week, the start of the weekend, AND the beginning of a new month. Can we STAND the strain?
Tell you one thing...the past week has made the Space Mountain Ride at Disneyworld look about as thrill-packed as sitting in the barber's chair...with the barber out to lunch!
The GOOD news is that we can leave all of LAST MONTH'S BAD NEWS behind us.
The BAD news is that we have that NEW MONTH with which to create MORE BAD NEWS.
Sorry, that's the cynical optimistic pessimist in me again.
But that aside, let's see what's shakin'...
-- Supreme Court Judge David Souter says he's going to retire sometime around JUNE this year.
Okay, can we say PERFECT STORM here?
This retirement will no doubt produce available candidates that will lean more to the far left, and that's the last thing we really need now, not that leaning to the far right is much better.
Too liberal is JUST AS BAD as too conservative. The uber-liberals want to change ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, while those uber-conservatives don't really want to change much at all. At least that's what I've seen over the past decade or two.
If we could only have a government that would busy itself running this NATION, instead of trying to intrude (further and faster) into all our lives, we'd ALL be better served, and THEY would be better elected officials.
Yeah...I know...dream on, Bob.
-- More meth labs have been found in LaGrange and Noble counties in Indiana (big surprise there, huh?), and arrests HAVE been made by the state police.
WTG, people.
Now, IF ONLY we, in Fort Wayne, could get the multi-agency drug task force back our of the ICU and out finding those dealers (hint, the low-level guys on the SE side will take you UP the "corporate" ladder), maybe we could claim similar headlines, depending on whether or not the prosecutor's office thinks it's enough of an "airtight" case.
To that end, I would say that not EVERY case will be a slam-dunk, so hunker down, get ballsy, and take it TO those perps, damn it!
THAT is what makes a good prosecutor or district attorney...the ABILITY to take victory from the jaws of defeat.
Stop caving to the ambulance-chasers, and stop with all the damn PLEA-BARGAINS. This isn't an episode of "LET'S MAKE A DEAL", for God's sake! Monty Hall isn't running the damn show here.
But enough about judicial attributes and rhetoric.
Moving on...
-- The whole Chrysler - Fiat deal just sound so bad to me on so many levels.
And the ONE thing I find totally WRONG about it, is not the fact that they're bankrupt, or that the government does any kind of bailout thing, or even doesn't bail them out. Oh, no.
Sherman, set the WAY-BACK MACHINE for America, circa 1991 - the Chrysler motorcar company.
It seems that a certain MODEL of that era was a perfect CLONE of a JAPANESE car maker, one MITSUBISHI.
The DODGE STEALTH and the MITSUBISHI 3000GT were IDENTICAL, except for very minor differences (headlights and fascia) and name tags.









Don't believe me?
Here's the facts, ma'am (or sir):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Stealth
And this is NOT the first time Chrysler spent some "bedtime" with OTHER car companies. Going back to 1979, the Dodge Charger "2+2" and the Plymouth Turismo TC3 had AUDI engine parts all over the place.
So my question becomes (in his best Horatio Caine)...WHERE are these OTHER car companies when Chrysler was sleeping with them for years, hmm?
Where IS Audi? Where IS Mitsubishi?
Why is FIAT the ONLY "player" in this mix with Chrysler anyway?
And who the hell wants FIAT? Certainly not I (and neither do you...trust me).
Cripes, some Fiats make the Russian-built TRABANT look like a Lincoln MKZ...LOL!
This is a royal clusterf*ck in the making...
-- OUR local AIR really sucks, too.
(and just when we were working on the water quality...)
Allen County air quality was given an *F* (and that doesn't stand for FINE) for OZONE. You know, that sweet fragrant air that you smell when thunderstorms hit (it's an ionized particle thing)...well, it's not EXACTLY that.We're talking about the "bad" ozone, and not the "good" ozone.
Yes, Martha, there IS a difference!
The "good" ozone is that which keeps harmful radiation from bombarding us in the UPPER atmosphere.
The "bad" ozone is at ground level and causes pollution.
Here's the *411* from WIKI, for all you chemical engineering folks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone
Suffice it to say, it would be NICE if we could somehow gather up all that nasty, polluting and oxidizing OZONE down HERE, and get it up the upper atmosphere, where we could replenish that THIN layer that keeps us all from becoming crispy critters and keeps oncologists rolling in money.
What I'm curious about is how something that HUGS THE GROUND can even GET up into the atmosphere to begin with. Is Delta airlines or UPS giving it a ride or what?
That's like saying that FREON (R-12 & R-22) ruins the ozone layer. Well, if you can tell me HOW a gas that is HEAVIER THAN AIR is mysteriously transported into the stratosphere, I'd say alrighty then, let's do away with that stuff.
Sorry...just not seeing it, though.
Maybe my favorite "environmangelist", Al Gore is using his PRIVATE JET to haul that crap up there...I KNEW it was a conspiracy...LOL!
It's all HIS fault that we have ozone depletion above our planet AND ozone pollution ON our planet.
Betcha those Mexicans are smuggling that damn ozone across our border!.
Tell 'ya...if you spend too much time wondering about ALL the troubles we have with the economy, taxes, the government, the swi...I mean the "N1H1 INFLUENZA A" outbreak, The Middle East, Pirates from Somalia, illegals coming to the USA, drugs, crime, gangs all on our streets, kids out of control, families in crisis, schools that pander to the lazy instead of challenging them, bailouts for banks, car companies going bust, and that ingrown toenail and cavity on your molar...you'd go CRAZY, right?
Well, it's MAY. Time to think about a few other things, and hopefully they will be less fraught with angst.
That's what GARDENS are for.
So wherever you might happen to go, either on foot, by bike, by bus, by horse (by God), in your car (instead of running along beside it), or even in your mind (don't wanna know about that)...
Take it easy, and...
Stay safe out there, America.